Seattle Times, 19 Feb 2013 – OLYMPIA (AP) – A House committee held a public hearing Monday on a bill to tax medical-marijuana dispensaries, an effort to undermine any black market when the sale of state-taxed recreational marijuana starts at the end of this year. The measure would hit dispensaries with a tax equal to 25 percent of their sales of cannabis and cannabis-infused products.

The Herald, 19 Feb 2013 – OLYMPIA – More than a dozen people, many of them medical marijuana patients or providers, testified Monday against a measure to tax medical marijuana dispensaries, an effort to undermine any black market when sale of state taxed recreational marijuana starts at the end of this year. The bill, which had a public hearing before the House Finance Committee, would hit dispensaries with a tax equal to 25 percent of their sales of cannabis and cannabis-infused products.

The Herald, 15 Feb 2013 – OLYMPIA – Gov. Jay Inslee sent U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder a letter this week detailing the efforts the state is taking as it moves forward with creating rules for a voter-approved legal market for marijuana. Inslee wrote the "the world is watching" both Colorado and Washington as the two states implement last fall’s votes that approved the recreational use of marijuana